EVALUATION OF THE LEADERSHIP STYLE AND ITS EFFECT ON THE EMPLOYEES ATTITUDE
ABSTRACT
The theme of the study is an evaluation of leadership style and its effects on employee; attitude (a case study of Nike report hotel).
Inadequate information and misconception about leadership style that is appropriate in organizational structure parse have lead to several ugly consequences strike actions, creation of informal group etc.
In order to achieve the above aims, research question ere used. The findings of the researcher were presented in tabular form and analyzed using simple percentage. The findings of the study revealed the following:
– That employees attitude to greatly affected by leadership style adopted by their.
– That employee react to leadership style by creating informal group. Base on the above findings, the following recommendations were made;
– When formulating organization policy, it is necessary that employee needs and aspirations are integrated.
– The management should also endeavors to establish and maintain a nice conflict resolving devices.
It is the therefore believed that if the afore mentioned recommendation suggested be seriously taken into consideration, it will go a long way in offering solution to some of the problems faced by organizational goal.
CHAPTER ONE
1.0 INTRODUCTION
1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
Leadership is an area of managerial responsibility that is needed to develop plans; set objectives that help the organization cope with the future and to meet the demand of the environment. The technical, economic, social and political characteristic of organization brings about continuing need for the innovation, creativity and imagination of a leader. Leadership ability therefore is a valuable skill and those who posses or have it reap high rewards. The universal dearth of effective leaders causes organization to scout constantly for them and fosters development and better utilization of existing leaders.
Leadership is generally defined as influence, the act or process of influencing people so that they will strive willingly towards the achievement of group goals. To lead is to guide, conduct and direct. Leadership has an affect on the performance of any organization. It affects both the employee’s attitude and productivity of the organization. Research findings however suggested that leadership effectiveness is not depending on the source of power alone but with situational factors, climate or any particular style.
From then foregoing, the question is that how effective is the leadership style in bringing abut a good reaction n employee’s towards organization, work and their environment. It is aim of the research to give due to the question.
